2026-11-02: Season 1 Finale

About this Episode

In this week's Log Level Debug news roundup we talk about Proton going cray-cray, Microsoft doesn't make enough money, someone uses A.I. cheaply, and Apple refreshed hardware.

• Microsoft can't afford to keep paying people, asking them to leave.
  • https://www.theverge.com/tech/1020785/microsoft-earnings-revenue-q1-2027
  • https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-makes-new-voluntary-exit-offer-to-more-than-a-quarter-of-its-workforce-including-some-execs
  • https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/10/26/introducing-a-voluntary-exit-offer
• Proton is rushing toward full AI Psychosis.
  • https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning
• Proton will re-interview employees.
  • https://www.404media.co/protons-ceo-cancels-ai-re-interviews
  • https://www.404media.co/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-ai-to-see-who-gets-to-keep-their-job
• Sam Altman thinks you're a bad person because you have too much ram.
  • https://frvr.com/blog/news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-says-its-terrible-to-have-everybody-have-a-bunch-of-the-worlds-limited-supply-of-dram-instead-of-shoving-it-all-in-datacentres
  • https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-stargate-project-to-consume-up-to-40-percent-of-global-dram-output-inks-deal-with-samsung-and-sk-hynix-to-the-tune-of-up-to-900-000-wafers-per-month
• GitHub showed off some usage stats for the past year. Lots of big numbers.
  • https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-commits-pushes-reach-new-highs-in-2026-as-developers-build-with-agents
• Apple refreshed some hardware. You can touch whatever you want, as long as you pay for it.
  • https://www.theverge.com/tech/1020993/apple-polishing-cloth-compatible-macbook-proled-xdr
  • https://www.theverge.com/tech/1020069/apple-pro-and-tell-event-everything-announced-this-week
• The Claude Code extension was installing SSH backdoors
  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/10/30/inside-malicious-claude-code-branded-cursor-extension-persistent-ssh-backdoor/
  • https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise
• CSS-Tricks is once again an independent publication
  • https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner
  • https://wil.to/posts/taking-back-css-tricks/
• People aren't patching their PHP systems
  • https://thenewstack.io/php2shell-unpatched-php-servers
• Revolut saved tons of money not paying for A.I.
  • https://www.startuphub.ai/ai-news/artificial-intelligence/2026/revolut-says-self-hosted-ai-cut-coding-costs-90
• Over 10% of Microsoft revenue comes from OpenAI
  • https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/419080/microsoft-generated-10b-in-revenue-from-openai.html
• Binance was hacked. For some reason, people stole pretend money.
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm5yn8eqg3npo
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cqrmynd3042gt